Review: Boca Museum’s “Unbranded” Looks at Race in Advertising

For all of the strides the United States has made toward racial justice since the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, few would argue Madison Avenue has led the charge toward a more perfect union. Corporate advertising, a surface-sunny profession that prefers positivity to negativity, is also an untrustworthy business where the motives of the admen are driven not by a desire for national comity but to advance the machine of commerce.